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PT · Portugal · Vagos · 1,750 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ouca

Ouca, Portugal, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 801 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 49% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 18° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 20° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 21° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 20° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 17° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 20° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 24° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 21° · 65 % · 28 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

801
hectares burned
49 %
of its area
3
fires
16
km²

How many times has Ouca burned?

Ouca has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2017. The most recent: Quiaios fire, October 2017, with 743 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
801
cumulative ha
15 Oct 2017
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Portugal →

Fires that entered Ouca

  1. 743 ha Quiaios fire, October 2017 45% of the municipality · 24,183 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 51 ha Ouca fire, June 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 388 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 7 ha Oliveira do Bairro fire, August 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, DG Territory (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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